terawatt
Trillion watts combined
A terawatt is a unit of power equal to one trillion watts, used to measure energy production and consumption at planetary scales.
Global human civilization currently uses roughly 18 terawatts of power.
The unit appears most often in discussions of renewable energy capacity, climate policy, and the total output of national power grids.
Solar installations worldwide now generate several terawatts of peak capacity.
Maximum amount containable
- generationAge-defined peer group
- outputWhat something generates
- consumptionUsing up of resources
- demandForceful request or requirement
load · threshold · magnitude · measurement · unit · metric · quantification
Of the star
- windAir current outdoors
- nuclearOf atomic energy
- hydroelectricGenerated by flowing water
- geothermalRelating to underground heat
fusion · renewables · fossil fuels · power plant · turbine · reactor · photovoltaic · offshore
Arterial blood throb
- beamStructural support member
- irradianceIncident power per area
- intensityStrength or force level
- femtosecondQuadrillionth of a second
plasma · inertial confinement · ultrafast · photon · optical · peak power
Sending of information
- distributionAllocation across recipients
- infrastructureBasic physical systems
- substationPower distribution point
- transformerVoltage-altering electrical device
high-voltage · superconducting · interconnection · baseload · dispatch · balancing · storage · powerline
capacity
Maximum amount containable
- generationAge-defined peer group
- outputWhat something generates
- consumptionUsing up of resources
demand · load · threshold · magnitude · measurement · unit · metric · quantification
solar
Of the star
- windAir current outdoors
- nuclearOf atomic energy
- hydroelectricGenerated by flowing water
geothermal · fusion · renewables · fossil fuels · power plant · turbine · reactor · photovoltaic · offshore · clean energy
pulse
Arterial blood throb
- beamStructural support member
- irradianceIncident power per area
- intensityStrength or force level
femtosecond · plasma · inertial confinement · ultrafast · photon · optical · peak power
transmission
Sending of information
- distributionAllocation across recipients
- infrastructureBasic physical systems
- substationPower distribution point
transformer · high-voltage · superconducting · interconnection · baseload · dispatch · balancing · storage · powerline · utility
- Power Unitshorsepower, milliwatt, microwatt, nanowatt, brake horsepower
- tera- unitsterabit, terahertz, teraflop